Three edge-on spiral galaxies

I attended the Deep South Regional Stargaze Spring Scrimmage this year, and had a pretty good night hunting galaxies with my 15-inch truss-tube Dob. One object I paid a visit to was the bright Virgo galaxy NGC-4216 and two companions which were course much fainter. NGC-4206 was still fairly easy to spot at 111X but NGC-4222 was much tougher, it's close to 14th magnitude and sometimes faded in and out of sight through the sky glow. This is definitely one of the most impressive trios of galaxies, I haven't seen one elsewhere that contains three edge-on spirals albeit canted in different directions. Anyone with an 8 or 10-inch telescope from a dark site should be able to see all three, or at least the brighter two from a moderately light polluted are. All fit into a 30 arc-minute field of view.

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Hello Christian, it seems what you saw closely matches what I saw. You've done a good job on your drawing as well, rendering the stars reasonably accurately is not easy. I don't know how you do your sketches, but I use for lack of a better word a red illuminated light box to do mine. The light from the red LED's backlights the paper and I then do rough drawings at the telescope. I do the finals later at home. Clear skies, I hope the weather's been kinder to you over the ocean, it's been bad most of the last few years in my region of the United States. I was glad to get the one good night that came along during the Spring Scrimmage I attended.